Summary Of Svidrigailov's Suicide

Now towards the end of the book we see Luzhin torn down and is convinced that his marriage is destroyed, since his mindset is extremely materialistic he wonders if providing more gifts would’ve made Dounia stay with him. Later on he frames Sonia for stealing a hundred roubles that were on his desk when he invited her over, but yet I don’t really see the purpose on why he did so. Did his massive ego drive him to doing so? Or did he just want others to suffer because he has this antagonist mindset? Either way his plan ultimately fails and we never hear from Luzhin again. Furthermore, with the site of no one worthy enough attending her late husband’s funeral, her stepdaughter being accused of theft, her lack of health, and her whole family being evicted, that is when Katerina Ivanovna loses her mind. This just proves a massive point that every single person is one horrific day of becoming insane. Nevertheless, before these set of events occurred she was a very hopeful human being with a vision of owning a school with her stepdaughters help. I think her lack of health correlated with each negative event that impacted her, as each event occurred her health kept decreasing.
Additionally, Raskolnikov’s confession to Sonia and the promise to also confess to the authorities is a huge step towards destroying that guilt he has had ever since the
I wasn’t surprised when he committed suicide, due to the fact that this book has many people trying to kill themselves and because his life reached an all time low. What has me curious is that why did he mention America as the afterlife? I honestly believed Svidrigailov lost the will to live when Dounia broke his heart by telling him she never loved him. He most likely killed the only women who loved him which was Marfa and knowing he couldn’t get back the only women who had her back ultimately led to him pulling the